CHILD OF GOD,YOU NEED TO STAND OUT

Are you a good human? Do you think God is proud of you as a son? Well, lets look at some basics that we need to outlay so that we can all know where to place ourselves.

 This article is just to remind you of your responsibility and obligation as a child of God.

To start with, i am not anywhere near perfect with some of these, but the fact that God lays such in my spirit, means that He is looking forward to positive  change from my side  as well as yours. We are all in this world so that we can fulfill the purpose of our maker, and as human we ought to make it a better place for others to live in even as we wait for the day when our Lord Jesus will come back for the church or when He calls us home incase our Lord tarries.

I understand we might not be able to be in perfect terms with everyone we come across because of our differences in many aspects of life. This does not mean that we should start labeling such people as enemies. Please let us focus on our mission and not pick the wrong subjects as aliens, the only enemy we have in common is the devil and his whole batallion. Just because you cant hold a conversation with someone does not mean you might not need them in the future. It is not even a matter of needing them, but its a principle for christians to love and owe no one else nothing but love.

Let us look at some of the things that you should put into practice as a child of God;
💝 Love.  Love people genuinely, stop this hypocrisy love at face value. Peter urges the God's elect  in chapter 4 verse 28 to love each other deeply. Why are we counterfeiting love? Why are we loving only at the surface level while deep inside we wish evil?  Its time to look for change and love people just as how God loves them. Atleast, the scriptures in the first Corinthians chapter13 outlay all the essentials about love. Take a look.

💝Give. Its a sad reality that people who dont know God have devoted their lives in giving more than the sons of God. Sons of God, give generously and expect nothing back. Dont be slow to help in circumstances where you can give it quick as it is required. If anyone reaches out for your help, give if and when you can. The things we have are not ours, we are just but stewards (1 Chronicles 29:4). The Lord shall refresh you, dont close your hand.

💝 Keep promises.  If you want to keep people close to you, fulfill your promises. If you struggle fulfilling promises please discipline your mouth from saying things which your heart knows they will not be folllowed to the latter. Discipline yourself to do whatever thing that proceeds from your mouth, avoid making rash promises. If you are not in a position to fulfill, ask your debtor (the person you made the promise to) to release you from it and become a free person.

💝 Accept correction. Its only a fool who will despise discipline (Proverbs 12:1) because they dont love knowledge and neither do they want to acquire any of it.  Only a scoffer and a mocker should not be corrected because they hurl insults and abuse to them that correct them, and i tend to assume that you are not a mocker. Teach your heart to receive corrections when you are wrong. We are human and we might not be right everytime, we need others to take us back to the path whenever we go astray.

💝Follow instructions. This reminds me of the story of King Saul and Samuel the prophet in the book of first Samuel chapter thirteen. In this story we see Saul depicting instructions and offering the sacrifice on his own, which lead to serious negative consequences. A simple act of following instructions from the authority pleases God. Not only the authority but also from  God Himself ( Proverbs 8:33). There is no way this world can be in order if there are no rules to be followed, instructions helps to bring sobriety. With guidace there is safety, and where it lacks,people fail.  Put your pride down and follow instructions where you are required to.


💝Apologise. Talking of laying down your pride, this is the epitome of measuring your pride level, lol, apologising.  Some of us are so full of ourselves, we cant apologise even when we know that we have wronged. One of the evidences that a person has broken themselves to God is the ability to ask for forgiveness when they wrong others. Somehow, accepting correction and apologising are close cousins and they go hand in hand.  Also learn to forgive and letting go (Eph 4:33)

💝 Dont plot evil. If you dont love genuinely this will be a daily routine. You might never implement the plans, but the mere thought of it makes us fail God.

💝Read to get information. Improve yourself by getting yourself that book and read. Get knowledge.  You have to be informed in this era. Especially you who spreads the Gospel, read to show yourself approved.

💝 Work hard. Get your hands to do something, do not be lazy. Engage your mind to help in making profit. Even when times become hard and may be you are not earning what you desire to, you still need to press on and not give up. God himself is a hardworker, and we see this in Genesis chapter 2. God will reward your efforts, wake up and do something, and not just working, work with integrity.

WHAT IS YOUR VALUE?

Hello there.

First i want to thank my good friend, lets call her Liz,( not real name) for allowing me use her picture. I came across it and i was so excited because i knew it would make a good description on this particular write up.

I really struggled with self esteem ever since i was in primary school. I never liked how God created me, never appreciated his handwork on my piece. I kept blaming God for my short height, my skin tone, my family background and everything i would find fault on. The fact that i was even the shortest in our class lowered my esteem the more. I remember days i would dread to go to school because i felt insecure, and the odd one out. Every girl in our class was beautiful, and their bodies had started to react positively towards the  adolescence stage while mine was repelling. Its not a laughing matter my friend. I had nothing to prove that i was now maturing into teenagehood. I was very flat, both on the north and south. Boys in our class never wanted to play with me, because i had nothing to offer. Please dont give me that look because i know you know what i mean and what it meant at that time.  It was a reciprocal in church, at home and everywhere else i found myself. This went on for a while.

When i was in campus, i was chosen as a prayer cordinator. One morning after our prayers, a lady approached me and mumbled something in my ears which changed my whole life and how i carried myself.

God has priced you so highly that no man can be rich enough to buy you. Do not listen or measure yourself to the standards of this world. The world has measured their own standards of beauty yet it can not create it with its  own hands,thus making it null and void.  We have manufacturers of products who are legalised  as owners of certain patents because they know how to create, maintain and control them. These patent owners usually  seek protection of their rights from other creators of patterns because content can be stolen.

We have an indefinable content creator who does not need any rights protection because only Him can create such and give life. Whatever He creates is perfect, He does not make junk. We can see this compliment in Genesis 1. Where He looked at every thing He made and saw that it was perfect. He does not make any mistakes, only Him knows how to define beauty and standard. He put value on us by coming to the world and die just for us so that we can have fullness of life.

God is not pleased with us when we start complaining about the temple which He fashioned for us to live in. Remember we are spirits living in a temple which is the body. There is nowhere in the Bible where the Holyspirit guided the authors to describe how large or small the nose,ears,lips should be for one to be beautiful. I have never come across any specific size description of physical beauty nor height in the Bible.
 Everytime the Bible describes a person it does not go into details of how small or big their body parts were.  David was ranked one of the handsome men in Israel, the Bible describes how his eyes were beautiful, but it does not go into details of whether they were purple, blue, black or green. It just mentions its beauty and stops there. Esther was beautiful, but we are not told whether or not she had a big bum and neither does it describe her height.

What i am trying to mean is that, there are no measures which God put to control the physical beauty standards, therefore we are all wonderfully made. Whether tall or not,light skin or dark, slim or thin, we are all wonderful. Gods own masterpiece. There is a value that is on you, untouchable and unshakable, no one can bargain you out of it unless you lower your self to the standards of the world.

Success does not chose the physical appearance, neither does education. Boldness is not an effect of the physical appearance but a result of the state of mind. Feed your self with positive things, maintain the value that God has placed on you.Therefore, please look upon God! God alone can give a real image of ourselves. He is the only One, who knows exactly how He built us up and He knows perfectly what is our price!

Do you have a story about your self esteem? Hit my email.

I NEED A CAMERA. PART 2

Trusting that you are doing well.


I had a good session with some of you about getting ourselves a quality camera to take snaps of our characters and review whether or not we are emulating our Lord Jesus Christ. The continuation of this topic is due to your request, and I am here to honor it.

I realised that there is much i can say about our characters,and we can all try to make them better with the help of the Holy spirit who teaches us(John 14:26).

 Today i want us to go through the friendship sector and have a look at the images we have of ourselves concerning this sector. Towards the end of last year,I came across many posts on social media of people claiming to walk away from toxic relationships and letting people go since those who were meant to stay would stay. I was supporting the trend in every bit of it until one day as i was reading the story of Nabal and how his wife took the initiative of apologising on behalf of her husband because he was surly and so mean (1 Samuel 25)

This got me thinking, is it possible that we are so ignorant not to understand that we also have toxic traits or is it that we are so full of pride not to accept that we can also contribute to our failures and broken relationships.

With that, I made a resolution in my mind not to ever blame others for the broken relationships that I have
had. I realised that in one way or the other , I contributed to its failure. As the famous saying goes, "It takes two people to tangle," i will spice it up and add,that "it also takes two to break up."

For the longest time now,we have been pointing fingers not realising that 4 others have been pointing back at us. We need to take a 'selfie'  in this department and ask ourselves whether the image is satisfying, or we have an ambiance of selfishness and pride which has filled our hearts and souls.

Take your camera along, lets take some pictures and then do a review of them. Come along.

💞 Do you check up on them if they don't?
💞 Do you listen to understand or to respond?
💞 Do you interrupt their talk?
💞 Do you visit them if they don't?
💞 Do you criticize them or appreciate them?
💞 Are you adding value into their lives, if yes,how?

I took an initiative of sharing this idea on my WhatsApp status and I got some really exciting feedback and I will share some of them with their permission. Person 1  told me that they agree that they have toxic traits, and they learnt that too late when everything that mattered had lost. "Toxicity, This word makes me sad at times but I think I learnt the lesson I was meant to learn. I was bitter over my ex for a while and I felt heavy and I couldn't trust someone (both male and female) but I have over time learnt that I was a high contributor to the break up and probably I'd be having a husband right now but due to my high levels of toxicity, I lost him for good but am glad I understood that my levels of toxicity were high and am learning to  be less toxic to myself and others."

As i was sharing with another friend,person 2, i mentioned about keeping quiet when the other person is talking and not cutting them short, she had this to say, "I remember am supposed to wait when my mouth is halfway," this sounds funny right? But trust me its very irritating. This can cost you a good friend. We all know that it is not that an easy task to do, but its a skill that you can  learn.

Do you know someone you would like to change and
regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.  “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof,” said Confucius, “when your own doorstep is better.

The next time you want to remove people from your life because you think they are toxic, please remember you are not better,you might be the toxic one. It is a high time we emulate David, by searching our hearts and also by allowing God to search them so that he can remove all the toxic traits that will block us from doing and acting according to his will. God will always use people to drive you to your destiny, be careful with how you deal with people.

It will be better if we take a break from spreading the gospel of "toxic friendships," and launch on sincere self inspection initiative, then we will do a review of our findings. It is after the exercise, when we will be able to know who is to stay and who is to leave. I just hope and pray that we will not be the ones who will be termed as toxic by some of our friends who will read this too, am just saying.

With love.

I NEED A GOOD CAMERA.

IN NEED OF A CAMERA.

Cameras are every where. In this time and Era, anyone can own a camera,and not just a camera but a quality one.  Life has been made easy by technology and we have these cameras everywhere we go. We always try to capture every moment in our lives,which is good because we only live once YOLO! *Insert your favourite emoji*

How i wish i can tell you a story of how we,the 1980's and 90's kids used to look for these photographers who used to be seen making rounds in our villages or estates once in a while. Finding one was like hitting a jackpot, it was a very rare chance. The challenge here is that i dont want to make this article a long one, so lets save that for another day.

I was late, so i just picked my bag and rushed out of the house. As I was locking the door, my mind had already reached my destination and I was thinking of how much i was going to enjoy taking pictures because I had worn one of the best attires in my wardrobe and again I was going to meet one of the best people I had in my life. But wait!! Something was missing, my camera, I mean my phone was missing. The one which i was going to use to take photos.

Do you have a spiritual camera? I mean do you have that asset that you use to reflect your character? Am asking whether  you allow the word of God to reflect who you truly are! Or you are one of the people James 1:23 describes. The one who looks at himself in the mirror and goes away, moments later, he forgets how he looked like in the mirror. In this context, i want you to realise that Apostle James was referring to a good mirror which is clean, to be able to reflect a good,exact image of the object. A bad mirror can not give you the correct results.

Before we go on, i want you to understand that our camera has replaced Apostle Jame's mirror for the sake of relevance.

Let me try and break it down, do you call yourself to a meeting and ask yourself whether you are Christ like? Our mirror here is Christ himself. Do you see yourself in the character of Christ? Are you drinking what you are preaching,Or there is wine at some corner around you? It is time to take a photo of your inner man and take a look at it, does it bring glory to the deity of God?

Is God pleased with your action and thoughts despite travelling from Genesis to Revelation? Oh yes, i know you know  Obed-Edom, Belteshazzar and Joakim and who exactly they were in the Bible, but do you really live your life in accordance to His will? Can we miss your presence because you ooze wisdom?,and not just wisdom but the kind of wisdom recommended by King Solomon in Proverbs.

As for me, i think i need a better camera. I want a closer relationship with my God so that my camera can upgrade to a good quality. A quality with bigger pixels,that which can capture every little tiny detail of my character. I purpose to always move around with it, take selfies and review the photos on a regular basis. I want my inner image to reflect the one who called me. I purpose to review my character, and to correct where i am required to.

I want faithfulness, honesty , obedience and integrity to be captured, because i want to remain relevant in my father's house. I want to admire what i see.

Who is joining me in purchasing a better camera? Are we ready to get a good mirror? A mirror which we can use to reflect our character? We need it.

HELLO 25. THIS IS WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE.

HELLO, 25!

It feels so great to be a year older, I now enter into the second phase of my late twenties. There is a certain feeling that comes with this age, those who are past 25 know what am talking about. Anyway, I am just playing with your mind, what I mean is everyone has this feeling whenever they are turning a year older, so you all know the feeling I have right now, right? It is so exciting.

I know you are in the Christmas mood and there is a party going on, or rather one that you want to attend. Then you will be having another party after that then another one and then another one, so it is a party after-party after party after party *insert the winking emoji*. Your mood is all charged up for this Christmas, so am i.

 Let us just pause and allow me to wish you a  very merry Christmas. As you party during this season may you understand the reason why you are celebrating this holiday. Do you know the guy who has given us the reason for this season? If Yes, thank you.  If no, I recommend you to the good book, the Bible. Look for the book of John and read chapter 3 verse 16. Is that a deal? Yes, thank you.

Now, gather here brethren, let us learn, unlearn and relearn. Years just flipped away, I mean was 16 just the other day, where did the time go?

I want to share some lessons which I have garnered over the few years of my existence. Grab your stool and make yourself comfortable. Let us start.

😄Accept yourself the way you are. God looked at you and said that you are wonderfully made because he has expressed that in the scripture. He does not make mistakes and He will not start now. Everything is where He intended it to be. Be comfortable in your own skin.

💝 Love and involve God in all your endeavors. There are things that seem right in the eyes of man but they are all vanity. When you allow Him to take the wheel of your life He will always direct you to the right path. He will also establish your plans.

👭 Chose good friends. Before you chose always ask God to help you in this exercise. It is very important to have friends who will take you to another level depending on your desires in life.

👫 Obey and honor your parents. you want to live long and as a blessed young person, chose to respect your parents. Remember to take care of their needs when you can and God will bless you. Woe unto you who never visits them nor care about them.

💝 Learn to let go. Seasons come and go. There are things and people in our lives who are not meant to be there for the rest of our lives. Ask God for the spirit of discernment and when such occasions happen, release the subject with a good heart so that you can allow the next phase of your life to start unfolding.

💝 Learn etiquette. I want you to be keen on this. I urge you, my fellow young people, to learn etiquette. How you greet a young person is not the same way you will go greeting the elderly ones.  Learn to choose your words keenly when speaking to people, be it that they are young or old. Do not go to people's houses and take over the remote, watch what you found them watching and stop suggesting programs to them. Avoid peoples phones like plague.

💝 Know when and how to talk. You will not know that someone is a fool until they open their mouths to speak. If you are not invited into a conversation, please don't contribute. Even if your words will be wise, you will look like a fool. There are times your silence will speak more than your words.

🙅 Learn to say No. There was a time I was so worn out because I used to say yes to every suggestion and invitation. I barely had time for my personal projects because I wanted to please others. Say No whenever it is necessary.

⌚ Give people your time. It is the best gift you can ever give to the people you love.

💝 Make mistakes. Take the risk as long as it will not cost you your future and your life. 

💝 Always have a conference meeting with yourself. Talk to yourself, have nature walk all by yourself and also take yourself out. I do this every Sunday. 

⛪ Find a church or a fellowship. Do not ignore Paul's instructions on not forsaking the fellowship of brethren. It is they who will lift you when your strength fails. 

👘💄 Ladies, look good. You don't have to own a cloth line to appear neat and tidy. Just make sure you smell good and keep modesty as one of your principles.

💕 Ladies, don't entertain everyone in your inbox. We have wolves in the sheepskin. Like I said above, pray for discernment. It will save you from the devil.

💘 Ask questions before you start that relationship. Get to know what happened before they found you. Make your foundation strong, so that when the wind comes, because they will come, you will still be firm.

💔 Breakup is not a killer disease. It is not the end of the world, much lays ahead of you. Your heart is very strong. Moreover, break up is not a heart disease The world is waiting for you and most importantly, true love is still waiting for you.

👣 You are not alone. You see that situation you are in right now, was a test to someone else out there and they concurred it. Don't worry, it will soon be over.

💻 Get information. Google is there, make this uncle your friend.

🎤 🌏Share the Gospel. If you are born again, let everyone know the God you are serving. Invite people to this side of victory.

🎤hare your testimony. You will win them by the words of your testimony. Do not be ashamed of your past.

💝 Try and practice generosity. Cast your bread into many waters and forget.  Do good and mind your business. Not because you want anything in return, but because the Bible asks us not to tire doing good. 

👫 Guys, treat us as your sisters until you decide you want to marry one of us. It is sad and heartbreaking when you find out that this guy is not only interested in you but also in some other few ladies. Men, we now want to see the traits of our father(God) in your characters when it comes to relationships matters.   

👥 Avoid peer pressure. Live within your pocket, age is just a number. Don't try to compete with your schoolmates or colleagues. Time and chances happen to everyone at the right time.

👼 Speak your mind. Don't be afraid to let people know what you think about different situations in different circumstances.

💁 Be optimistic. Life is all about faith. Mbele iko sawa!

HERE IS TO 25!😃